Coffee break- first Leopard MacBook in the wild
I am in one of the neighborhood coffee shops working happily when a young guy comes in and sits in front of me. He has a thin leather organizer in his hands that he unzips and exposes a new MacBook Pro. The case is designed so he can use the MBP without removing it and it’s cool how it works, it didn’t even look like a computer in his hands while closed. It’s the Crumpler Hymn 15" case. The other cool thing about this is it’s the first Mac I’ve seen in public running Leopard, it turns out the guy just bought it the day after the Leopard launch and it was pre-installed. Cool. 
UPDATE: I forgot to mention how impressed this kid and his friend were with the utility of the HP 2710p Tablet PC I was using in slate mode. It didn’t take a long demo for him to get very excited and his comment was not surprising- "I wish Apple would make a Tablet".
did you mean to say macbook?
No, his was a 15″ MacBook Pro.
> “I wish Apple would make a Tablet”.
Amen, brother….
I wish people would stop saying ‘I wish Apple would make a Tablet or UMPC’ when there are perfectly good Tablets and UMPCs already available which cost a lot less and are not locked down.
I completely agree with John in Norway. Particularly after the lame release of Leopard (horrible WLAN connectivity issues), which has left MANY Apple fans (including myself with four Macs at home) very unhappy.
The variety of UMPCs and Tablet PCs out there, coupled with the Leopard issues and the unfortunate (to be gentle) lock down of the iPhone platform do not make me yearn (any more) for an Apple Tablet.
Has anyone yet tried to install Leopard (or Tiger) onto the HP 2710p Tablet PC? Such as the guys running the project at osx86scene.com ? It might be some extra work but might also be worthwhile to try out. I’m mostly a Mac guy but I’m sick of waiting around for Steve Jobs to release a Tablet Mac. In fact, when King Steve announced the iPhone, earlier this year, he referred to styluses as saying “yuck” (well, in the context of PDAs and “smart phones” is what he meant). Anyway, I’m almost sold on the HP 2710p Tablet PC based on JK on the Run’s reviews and seeming endorsement of it
… I had last year for a while the first IBM – Lenovo Thinkpad X41 TabletPC. It was nice but there were times I wish I could have had something other than XP running on it (this was before Vista was out). I also liked OneNote but I worry about proprietary document formats — is there any way to run OpenOffice to edit OpenDocument documents and to also in some way attach hand-written notes, but not in a proprietary document format?